Wheat Production by Country
About This Dataset
Wheat Production by Country
China and India together grow roughly a third of the world's wheat, and consume almost all of it at home. The more surprising movement is downward: United States output has fallen by around 28 per cent since 1990 and France's by a fifth, as growers moved land into maize and soya. Russia carries no 1990 figure here because it was still part of the Soviet Union; it now ranks third and is the world's largest wheat exporter, which is why its harvest, rather than China's, sets the price importers across North Africa and the Middle East pay.
Analysis
China (140,105), India (113,292) and Russia (82,588) take the top three in Wheat Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024. No single entity dominates: the leader, China, holds 22.1% of the combined total of all 14. Only 3 of the 14 reach even half the leader's figure (70,052.5 or more). Over 2000–2024 the steepest rise belongs to Russia: +139.7% (34,460 → 82,588). 2 of the 14 entities end the period lower than they started. China has held first place in every year covered here.
Source:
FAOSTAT
Key Findings
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China leads in Wheat Production (Thousand Tonnes) with 140,105 in 2024.
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Russia grew fastest: +139.7% from 2000 to 2024 (34,460 → 82,588).
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United States declined most: -27.8% from 1990 to 2024 (74,294 → 53,650).
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Average Wheat Production (Thousand Tonnes) in 2024: 45,265 · median: 29,211.
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2024 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2024: China is 8.4× larger than Iran.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- FAOSTAT
- Coverage
- 14 entities · 1990–2024 (5 years) · 67 observations
- Measure
- Wheat Production (Thousand Tonnes)
- Last updated
- 16 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
An article using this data
American Wheat Production Has Fallen 28% Since 1990
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